Lethal Repetition
Serial Killing in European Cinema
Serial killing is an extremely rare phenomenon in reality that is none-theless remarkably widespread in the cultural imagination. Moreover, despite its rarity, it is also taken to be an expression of characteristic aspects of humanity, masculinity, or our times.Richard Dyer investigates this paradox, focusing on the notion at its heart: seriality. He considers the aesthetics of the repetition of nastiness and how this relates to the perceptions and anxieties that images of serial killing highlight in the societies that produce them.Shifting the focus away from the US, which is often seen as the home of the serial killer, Lethal Repetition ins…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84457-926-6
- EAN: 9781844579266
- Produktnummer: 27620253
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'856 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: b/w images
Über den Autor
Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002) and In the Space of a Song (2012).
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